Technology & Maintenance Council
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March 10, 2025
TMC Honors Five with Silver Spark Plug
Council Recognizes Outstanding Contribution to Industry with Highest Award
Nashville, Tenn. – Today, American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council honored five professionals with its highest honor — the Silver Spark Plug —at the opening of TMC’s 2025 Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition.
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March 10, 2025
TMC Names Radu Mihai General Chairman & Treasurer
Canadian Maintenance Manager to Lead Industry Organization
Nashville, Tenn. – Today, American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council announced Radu Mihai, corporate fleet manager, BURNCO Rock Products, has been installed as 2025-2026 general chairman and treasurer during the organization’s Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition.
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March 10, 2025
TMC Opens 2025 Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition
Event Features Dozens of Technical Sessions and Premier Trade Show
Nashville, Tenn. – Today, American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council opened TMC’s 2025 Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition here at the Music City Center.
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March 10, 2025
TMC and MVTS Announce Expanded Collaborative Partnership
Nashville, Tenn. (March 10, 2025) – Today, American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) and MVT Solutions (MVTS) announced they have signed an addendum to an existing Memorandum of Understanding on a new, collaborative partnership.
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March 9, 2025
Fullbay Unveils Fifth Annual State of Heavy-Duty Repair Report;
Highlights Key Industry Data and Benchmarks for Commercial Repair Industry
Fifth report finds that labor rates continue to rise by more than $4 annually
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on January 16 granted American Trucking Associations (ATA) and its Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) a five-year exemption that will cut the time new technicians need to spend preparing to enter the workforce while maintaining high standards for safety and competency.
ATA, TMC Hail FMCSA Exemption to Cut Technician Training Red Tape
Washington – This week the American Trucking Associations and ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council thanked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for granting an exemption the groups had requested to alleviate the technician shortage. The waiver will cut the time new technicians need to spend preparing to enter the workforce while maintaining high standards for safety and competency.
Under the new policy, which ATA requested in 2020, technicians will be allowed to skip the federally required one-year of training or experience needed to conduct commercial vehicle inspections and brake-related repair and maintenance provided they received training based on TMC’s Recommended Practices.
A new report from American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council and Decisiv Inc. indicated parts and labor costs rose in the third quarter of 2024.
ABSTRACT
TMC’s S.14 Last Mile & Vocational Vehicles Study Group undertook review of the applicability of the Council’s Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards (VMRS) in specialty commercial vehicle applications. The Task Force assigned to this effort concluded that VMRS is directly applicable and a valuable tool in specialty commercial vehicle maintenance programs in its current format. No changes are needed to the current Recommended Practice TMC RP 802G, Vehicle Maintenance Reporting Standards, as existing processes for the addition of new codes as well as the availability of user-defined coding enables accommodation of these applications.